04200nam 2200709Ia 450 991046422840332120210626004239.01-283-43010-X97866134301063-11-025377-110.1515/9783110253771(CKB)3360000000338519(EBL)799411(OCoLC)769190341(SSID)ssj0000560174(PQKBManifestationID)11358933(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000560174(PQKBWorkID)10568116(PQKB)10994414(MiAaPQ)EBC799411(DE-B1597)123468(OCoLC)840446667(DE-B1597)9783110253771(Au-PeEL)EBL799411(CaPaEBR)ebr10515821(CaONFJC)MIL343010(EXLCZ)99336000000033851920110422d2011 uy 0engurnn#---|u||utxtccrRhetoric and evidence[electronic resource] legal conflict and literary representation in U.S. American culture /Peter SchneckBerlin ;Boston Walter de Gruyter20111 online resource (300 p.)Law & literature ;1Description based upon print version of record.3-11-025376-3 Includes bibliographical references.Front matter --Acknowledgements --Table of Contents --Chapter 1. Law, Literature, and the Predicament of Representation --Chapter 2. Legitimate Fictions: Rhetoric and Evidence in the Law-and-Literature Movement --Chapter 3 Wieland 's Testimony: Charles Brockden Brown and the Rhetoric of Evidence --Chapter 4. The Judge and the Code: James Fenimore Cooper and the Common Law of Literature --Chapter 5. Evidence and Identification: The Case(s) of To Kill a Mockingbird --Chapter 6. Dissenting Opinions: William Gaddis, Alan Dershowitz, and the Spectacles of Media Justice --BibliographyThe book traces the changing relation and intense debates between law and literature in U.S. American culture, using examples from the 18th to the 20th century (including novels by Charles Brockden Brown, James Fenimore Cooper, Harper Lee, and William Gaddis). Since the early American republic, the critical representation of legal matters in literary fictions and cultural narratives about the law served an important function for the cultural imagination and legitimation of law and justice in the United States. One of the most essential questions that literary representations of the law are concerned with, the study argues, is the unstable relation between language and truth, or, more specifically, between rhetoric and evidence. In examining the truth claims of legal language and rhetoric and the evidentiary procedures and protocols which are meant to stabilize these claims, literary fictions about the law aim to provide an alternative public discourse that translates the law's abstractions into exemplary stories of individual experience. Yet while literature may thus strive to institute itself as an ethical counter narrative to the law, in order to become, in Shelley's famous phrase "the legislator of the world", it has to face the instability of its own relation to truth. The critical investigation of legal rhetoric in literary fiction thus also and inevitably entails a negotiation of the intrinsic value of literary evidence.Law & LiteratureAmerican literatureHistory and criticismLaw in literatureLaw and literatureUnited StatesHistoryLaw in mass mediaElectronic books.American literatureHistory and criticism.Law in literature.Law and literatureHistory.Law in mass media.810.9/3554HR 1520rvkSchneck Peter1960-1045144MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910464228403321Rhetoric and evidence2471175UNINA